"Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned."

-- Emile Durkheim

#Dream Quotes #Reality Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.”
“They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.”

Source : Michael A. Ledeen (2007). “The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It Happened. Where We Are Now. How We'll Win.”, p.213, Macmillan
“A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music.”
“I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.”
“I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.”

Source : Interview with Tom Bevan, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2007.
“Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms. these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted straight from literature and yet, life successfully aping art, they are alive, and fulfil their destinies - or act their parts - flawlessly.”
“The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely In the flattering toils of philandery.”

Source : "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

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